Turkey

No Escape for Turkmen Ambassador

Suspicions are growing that security forces could have used envoy’s family members as hostages to force him to return home after defection.

21 Feb 05

Lack of funds, surveillance equipment and official corruption hamper task of controlling the illegal trade in people and drugs.

21 Feb 05

Climbdown follows foreign warnings against attempt to overturn government.

21 Feb 05

Worries that enlargement is creating a new Iron Curtain in south-east Europe appear misplaced.

21 Feb 05

Imminent membership application risks weakening the Macedonia’s reformers and destabilising its fragile democracy.

21 Feb 05

A recent shootout has provoked demands for a revamp of Kosovo’s international police

21 Feb 05

Love is in the air in the Balkans - if the Eurovision Song Contest is anything to go by.

21 Feb 05

Failure to join PfP programme could result in dismissals and even constitutional changes to Republika Srpska.

21 Feb 05

Brussels worried by slow pace of reform of judiciary and high level of corruption.

21 Feb 05

Wave of arrests for violence elicits hostility from most local people.

21 Feb 05

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